Director
Sophia Al-Maria
Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology and reactionary Islam, the corrosive elements of consumerism and industry, and the erasure of history and the blinding approach of a future no one is ready for. She explores these ideas with certain guidebooks and ideas including, but not limited to, Zizek’s The Desert of the Unreal, As-Sufi’s Islamic Book of the Dead, as well as imagery from Islamic eschatology, post humanism and the global mythos of Science Fiction.
Directed

Wayuu Creation Myth
Director · 2017

Tender Point Ruin
Director · 2021

Tiger Strike Red
Director · 2022

Mirror Cookie
Director

A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale
Director · 2014

The Magical State
Director · 2017
Slaughter
Director · 2013
Mothership
Director · 2017
D0vedown
Director · 2018

Not Really in Reality Reality TV
Director · 2018

The Future Was Desert (Part II)
Director · 2016

Fatima al Qadiri: Spiral ft. Bobo Secret
Director · 2017

The Future Was Desert
Director

Beast Type Song
Director · 2020

Black Friday
Director · 2016


